Yet another User Name or password incorrect

Like thousands (tens of thousands?) of users I simply cannot get FaceTime to work.
I keep getting the "user name or password is incorrect" message.
Initially I wondered if the problem was the discrepancy in Apple's password protocol - on iTunes my password is all lower-case letters, but when changing it for FaceTime it has to have an upper-case letter and a digit.
But even that didn't work, nor did setting up a new AppleID, nor did changing the DNS (an app that doesn't work with a user's normal DNS server is surely DEEPLY flawed), nor did doing a complete reset/restore (again, things are DEEPLY flawed if that's a necessity).
I did manage at one point to connect, but then the next time I tried to connect it failed again.
And looking around there seem to be huge numbers of people having similar problems, and all sorts of suggestions to fix it ... going on for MONTHS.
FaceTime was supposed to be a big selling point for the device ... simple and easy to set up. Clearly Apple has failed on this BIG TIME ... and I'm no computer slouch, having been diagnosing and helping people with computers and networks for a very long time.
SO what do I do next?

this is quite the dilemma, but i have another take. my household is new to the mac. bought our first macbook pro in june, the first ipod touch 4g for my daughter this christmas. knowing that we bought the touch, we downloaded the facetime beta for mac in mid-december. on christmas morning my daughter opened her touch, set up factime with her gmail address and we immediately were facetiming. then, on december 30 my wife and i decided to buy our first iphones. they were the 16gb iphone 4. again, facetime worked immediately between each iphone and between the ipod touch and iphones. i don't think it's apple's fault, knock wood. i just think there are so many variable out there as far as router settings and such. there are many people with facetime problems that get them figured out and it turns out the ipod touch itself was not the problem, and many people go to the apple store and facetime works fine. i read these facetime threads with interest for some geeky reason. good luck.

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